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Normally, you should think, that a company like Microsoft is offering highly integrated services and normally they do if you take the integration of Windows Mobile into the PC and server environment with all the sync functionalities, etc but now imagine you bought a new Windows Mobile Pocket PC, you would like to start using MSN Messenger the first time and a friend tells you, that you need a Microsoft Passport account. Not a big deal at all, since you have the Internet in your pocket and you should be able to easily create such an account right from your Pocket PC. Ok, so far the theory.

Now go to www.passport.net with your Windows Mobile Pocket PC

Select Get started now from “Use an e-mail address you already have”

And wonder what you will receive:

You will receive: “We do not support PocketPC Yet”…

Source: http://www.theunwired.net

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According to Symantec Security, the first half of last year (H1 2005), there was an
increase of 679% in Denial Of Service attacks compared to H2 2004. Some direct
quotes from Yahoo’s article:

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At the same time, a U.S.-based drug firm’s website was disrupted for 24 hours in
what appeared to be an attack from the same source in Asia, says Prolexic.”

“When online payment-processor StormPay booted some customers for allegedly
operating a Ponzi scheme, it quickly became the target of a virulent DDOS attack that
temporarily knocked it off line this month.”

“About 120,000 machines were used in the attack, which hit websites in the Southeastern
USA, as well as major telecom carriers, according to ISDN-Net, an Internet service
provider in Tennessee that was affected.”

The Mobile Malware Researchers Association (MARA) claims to have characterized the first malware to cross-infect a handheld phone or PDA from a desktop PC binary file. The virus — a Trojan dubbed “crossover” — spreads from a Windows-based desktop PC to a Windows CE-based handheld device via an ActiveSync connection, according to the group

Virus Details: “When executed the virus checks what the current OS is, if it is not windows ce or mobile the virus makes a copy of itself and puts a startup command to the copy in the registry local-machine-current-version-run, the virus then quietly waits for an activesync connection to be detected, it can wait infinitely and everytime the desktop is rebooted the virus recreates itself and again add new copies to the registry, theoretically you can have so many copies running on startup it could degrade or halt the PC’s performance. When an active sync connection is detected the virus copies itself to the handheld device and remotely executes the virus to start running on the device.”

Now, there’s a reason to install the Antivirus e.g Norton for PDA’s… I Just hope we dont see a virus or something related to Xbox’s Live.Source: Bink.nu

Windows Live Local technical preview (pre-beta version) will go live offering â€œstreet-sideâ€ level imagery for Seattle and San Francisco. Imagery is limited to core downtown areas of the two cities and US customers will be able to access the tech preview directly at http://preview.local.live.com

Windows Live Local technical preview will provide consumers with an early look to provide feedback on the limited release of â€œstreet-sideâ€ imagery for Windows Live Local. Additionally, consumers can utilize the imagery to augment the current road, aerial, and birdâ€™s eye views currently available when searching for location specific information.

Update: The site seems to be dead either from all the traffic or Microsoft removed the site.

The biggest commitment to what will be in V2 of DPM and the timeframe was just posted in the NG. It is now officially confirmed that V2 will have multi-domain support (not to mention the already known SQLÂ & Exchange support)! As far as the timeline of RTM? – 2nd half of 2007. Direct quote from Karan:

“…the next release of DPM is in H2 of 2007. We will have the beta
version with Exchange and SQL support (including support for multiple
domains) by summer of this year. Given where we are in the development
cycle, it is hard to give more exact dates.”

Â Did you read that closely? – Beta version “by summer of this year”!!! 🙂 Does that statement mean literally BY this summer (meaning pre-summer) or ‘by the end’? My gut level response would be somewhere DURING summer and not before, as it seems very early for another beta. But even if it occured late summer, that still is 1 year or more until RTM in 2007! What does this mean? – My guess, private beta.

Thanks to Patrick Elliott :), I now have at least a temporary domain name: CactiDevelopers.Resdev.Net. It still points to http://71.39.42.23/, which I’m sure you have heard before. If there are problems with the DNS of the site, (like cactidevelopers.resdev.net/blog/blogdescriptions.aspx should pull up my blog directly), then let me know! – I can’t actually test the URLs myself, due to my annoyingly limited-ability router. lol Let me know!

Well, I just installed the 5308 build, Orcas Feb CTP, and Windows SDK Feb CTP. I then went to create a new WinFX project in Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite, and guess what? I get a load of errors right away saying that “Type X cannot be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?” – There isn’t a workaround for this, but it shouldÂ still compile and run your application fine (although you can’t use the Designer). But does it run fine or does nothing display? – If it compiles and enters debug mode but nothing displays on the screen, then here is the workaround I found… (although this problem doesn’t always occur even if you don’t follow the workaround). Just visit my blog for my observations: http://cactidevelopers.resdev.net/.

I saw a link on Bink.nu to a secret mystery launch of some particular sort.

Upon Further Inspection of the site it tells you at the end of a Shockwave Animation that all will be revealed on the 3/02/06 (Wendy Told me that We would know what beta she is in on the 4th) Which leads me to believe this could infact be a Wendy beta. I am not sure for certain as its only a guess but its pretty logical.

Â I just got x64 5308 off of MSDN and guess what? When I booted into Vista’s setup program, it failed every time on the format/partition screen. Even one of my friends hit this, although he didn’t find the workaround…. need to know the workaround (very simple)? – Just visit my official blog at http://71.39.42.23/! 🙂 The workaround is there waiting for you!

Â -Joseph Bittman DPM MVP MCSD.Net

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I just booked a flight to Seattle (for the third time in less than 8 months), so I will be in Redmond March 14 and 15th, hopefully meeting my MVP lead and of course a lot of the former R2 team.Â Â If anyone has any requests for any specific groups for me to meet with / interview, or maybe some questions for me to pose to the File/Storage team (since they will be my main team to meet with…) please post them here.Â Â Also note that some information will be confidential, but anything I can share I’ll gladly pass along!

Now because I can’t quite work it out how to upload images on here, I’ve but them on VistaBase (a knowledge base for Vista users and new users to Vista) so that everyone can see. As far as I know, these could be the first screenshots available to hit the Internet.